Chernobyl has been left a total shambles by retreating Russian troops.The Russians took control of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the first few hours of the invasion back on February 24 .They demanded the surrender of the 169 Ukrainian national guards based at the infamous plant and rounded up the hundred or so technical staff who monitor the vast concrete sarcophagus which has covered reactor number four since the catastrophic 1986 accident.Around 1,000 Russian troops were stationed at the site for two months, digging trenches in the highly radioactive soil of the exclusion zone.On one occasion, according to the site's chief safety engineer Valeriy Simyonov, a Russian soldier picked up a piece of highly-radioactive cobalt-60 with his bare hands.In a few seconds, he was exposed to radiation so intense that it was too high for a Geiger counter to measure.
It was not clear what happened to the soldier.As the Russians moved into the exclusion zone, a convoy of heavy military vehicles drove through a highly toxic zone called the 'Red Forest', kicking up toxic dust as it went."The convoy kicked up a big column of dust.
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